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Record W2093442382 · doi:10.1109/secon.2010.5508202

Fair Payments for Outsourced Computations

2010· article· en· W2093442382 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicCryptography and Data Security
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRemunerationOutsourcingLazinessPaymentComputer scienceCloud computingComputationSet (abstract data type)Computer securityIncentiveBusinessOperating systemMicroeconomicsFinanceWorld Wide WebEconomicsAlgorithm

Abstract

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Initiated by volunteer computing efforts, the computation outsourcing problem can become a compelling application for networked set-top-boxes and mobile devices. In this paper we extend such environments with the ability to provide secure payments in exchange for outsourced CPU cycles. Previous contributions in wired networks have almost exclusively tackled only one side of the problem -- offering incentives for volunteer participation and preventing worker laziness. This makes sense in static environments where reputable outsourcers have little to gain from incorrectly rewarding honest participation. However, this assumption is no longer valid in ad hoc environments, where unique identities are difficult to provide and anyone can outsource computations. In this paper we propose a solution that simultaneously ensures correct remuneration for jobs completed on time and prevents worker laziness. Our solution relies on an offline bank to generate and redeem payments; the bank is oblivious to interactions between outsourcers and workers. In particular, the bank is not involved in job computation or verification. Our experiments show that the solution is efficient: the bank can perform hundreds of payment transactions per second and the overheads imposed on outsourcers and workers are negligible.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.597
Threshold uncertainty score0.185

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2010
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